COLLECTION OF GEORGE STEPHENSON RAILROAD MEMORABILIA: A collection of items from a direct descendant of George Stephenson, the ''Father of Railways'', engineer who built the first public railway line. To include 1) 1868 dated commemorative print with photographs of the engine, broadsides, Stephenson, Pease and Newburn. Framed 21 1/4'' x 28 3/4''. 2) Photographs of portraits of Stephenson. 3) ''The Rocket'' book about Stephenson, published 1900. 4) 3 silverplate mugs and covered dish, from the family but of later dates than Stephenson.
CONDITION: Print not examined out of frame, bends